Re:Introduction to R Programming
by icc97 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @05:40AM
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> - The ide crashes once an hour and does not detect file-changes which forces you to restart it manually.
There's more than one IDE for R [0], and strictly that's not a problem with R itself, but the people who built the IDE.
> - People say R is the best and optimized for data-analytics which is simply not true. It's a marketing-lie spread by the creators. There is no data-analytics-task that you cannot do with the same ease in other programming languages.
I think there's very little marketing behind R. It's predominantly a statistics package, but clearly a lot of statisticians are using it for data analysis. So I think it's people that using it for data analysis that talk about it, not bloggers paid to write about it.
There's more than one IDE for R [0], and strictly that's not a problem with R itself, but the people who built the IDE.
> - People say R is the best and optimized for data-analytics which is simply not true. It's a marketing-lie spread by the creators. There is no data-analytics-task that you cannot do with the same ease in other programming languages.
I think there's very little marketing behind R. It's predominantly a statistics package, but clearly a lot of statisticians are using it for data analysis. So I think it's people that using it for data analysis that talk about it, not bloggers paid to write about it.
[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1097367/what-ides-are-av...